Books published by Central European University Press

This book is not about war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, evil, or the killing of a society. It is about a cultural heritage, something vital to a society as a society, something that was not killed in the previous war, something that is resilient.

The adjustment problems of public finance in East-Central European countries are often misunderstood and misinterpreted by western scholars. This book contributes to the bridging of the gap between what is being thought by external observers and what the actual public finance reality is, as described by competent local scholars.

In Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of WWII, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities were tried by so called people's courts. This book analyses this process in an objective, quantitative way, contributing to the present timely discussion on the Hungarian war guilt.

Races to Modernity confirms the importance of the Western model as well as the influence of international experts on city planning at the periphery of Europe.

This book is a collection of multidisciplinary case studies on biopolitical practices and discourses.

Disseminating knowledge of the state language to the non-Magyar half of the citizenry was a policy priority of the government of the Hungarian Kingdom between the 1870s and the First World War.

The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic late twentieth century transformation in the everyday lives of the Buryats, a Mongolian people who live in Siberian Russia.

A comprehensive yet concise account of the cultural and political situation in the Balkans during the last three decades of the Cold War (1960-1990).

The proliferation of festivals across the world has given birth to a new academic field: festival studies. Before his premature death Dragan Klaic was the greatest early authority of this discipline.

The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors-from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history-represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of Gábor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.

The book addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and the Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models.

Discussing the role of intellectuals in the political transition of the late 1980s and early 1990s and their participation in the political life of the new democracies of Central Europe, this text presents essays from authors who discuss the eight countries in the region.

In an exploration of the life and customs of the Hungarian nobility, this text compares historical reality and legal literature on the example of one noble kindred: the Elefanthy of northern Hungary (present-day Slovakia).

Discusses the main issues arising from the encounter between Roma people and surrounding European society since the time of their arrival in Medieval Europe. This volume looks at the history of persecution and genocide during the Nazi era.

A globally recognized media lawyer and communications scholar, Monroe Price was born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1938. In 1939, his family immigrated to the US where Monroe grew up. This autobiography of Monroe focuses on the question of identity, that of a child of refugees or a 21st-century scholar and global citizen.

Addresses five major interrelated themes - concepts and history of comparative media research; the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions; political parallelism in mature and new democracies; professionalization of journalism in different political cultures; and, the role of the state intervention in media systems.

Discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans in the late nineteenth. This book compares three nations sharing similar geopolitical, historical and cultural background but divided by language and cultural traditions. It also presents case studies, dealing with adaptation of three socialist paradigms.

Presents the life story of a Serbian woman, preserved in memoirs, letters and mostly diaries, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of a life that takes place against the backdrop of turbulence in the Balkans. This title covers more than half a century, five wars (including the two world wars), and four ideologies.

Includes excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c pilgrimage diaries through early specimens of modern tourism accounts to 20th c impressions from the other side of the Iron Curtain. This work enlarges both the documentary base and the terms of the debate over a source for discussions of identities and mentalities.

Besides Berlin, Budapest was the fastest-growing capital city in Europe at the end of the 19th century. This book describes the development of private spaces in this newly emerged metropolis. The book offers an overview of the everyday life of the entire society and social segregation.

This volume provides a thorough introduction to the Cyrillic collection, and contains the detailed descriptions of the fifty-six Slavonic Cyrillic codices or fragments thereof held by the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, the vast majority of which are here described for the first time. The analysis of the codices has been done using the resources of modern technology. Written from the thirteenth to early nineteenth century, the codices were mostly produced within the confines of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. The catalogue is extensively illustrated with pictures of the most characteristic and decorative pages and a few covers of the codices.This publication is a further step towards the complete documentation of the Cyrillic manuscript heritage of Central Europe.

How wide is the gap between the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe and the most developed nations? How can it be narrowed? This text addresses these questions in a comprehensive way. It delves into the inter-relations between the major factors of developmental performance and looks at their effects on sustained societal development.

A central element in the formation of Eastern European state socialism, the collectivization of agriculture touched the lives of many more citizens than the transformations in industry. This book analyzes the campaign of collectivization in Romania, between 1949 and 1962.

The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. This title addresses the matter of time and temporalities. It includes topics such as the deep antiquity, and the timeless time of eternity.